The day after I tooted this, I listened to a podcast where a comedian said he had used a similar joke in his routine. Small world. But I like this joke for two reasons: (1) because of the obvious reversal of the expectation, but also (2) because the idea of stating that you “see” what you are about to eat is funny to me. It would be still be funny (maybe funnier) if it didn’t have anything to do with seafood: “I’m on this new diet. I see fruits and vegetables and I eat them.” It’s a completely superfluous thing to say, y’know? Look, I just think it’s funny, OK? I don’t care if you disagree. Get off my back! You can be a real dick sometimes.

Remember when I said, “I’m lucky people like me so much or they probably wouldn’t like me so much”? I was thinking of this movie (or vice versa). In the movie, the whole town kind of goes out of their way to be nice to a guy (Ryan Gosling) with a sex doll (that he doesn’t have sex with) who’s kind of crazy.6 And that’s how I feel sometimes. Like I’m crazy but people still like me. They excuse my neuroses and support me anyway (but they still think I’m weird).

Is it clear that I think the presumption is that the celebrity doesn’t need them, not that they would try them on? I didn’t have room to say that it was a celebrity.8 It’s unclear, isn’t it? I was trying to fit it in 140 characters! I had to make some tradeoffs. I’m sorry. Maybe I should just stop watching commercials until I learn how to comment on them effectively.

WISDOM:

It’s lonely at the top. At least it looks lonely. I can barely see anything up there, even with these binoculars.

It’s really quite a good movie. Although, SPOILER ALERT (seriously), I wish it would have ended with Ryan Gosling admitting that he knew he was being weird all along, but he just couldn’t cope any other way. I think that could have been a super emotional and poignant scene. Instead, he’s just kind of really crazy and then he gets a little better. [↩]

This is also why this episode of This Is Twittering is not star-studded. Urkel says hi though. [↩]

See? This one could have studded some stars too, but I effed it up again. [↩]

That concludes this footnote-studded, moderately-sized 50th-or-so episode of This Is Twittering: Meta-Commentary Digest. [↩]